I have pretty awesome-looking burn blisters all over my right hand. Instead of telling you exactly how I got them, I will instead continue to marvel at their size. And quantity. And hoping that the few on the pads of my fingers go away soon so typing becomes easier ( Read more... )

So a friend and I were talking, mostly seriously (I guess), about taking a cake decorating class. This was some sort of hypothetical "in the future" thing ( Read more... )

On everything but that which needs be done ( Read more... )

So I was reading this surprisingly awesome article on Egyptian culture,* for part of my annotated bibliography**. One of the main points of the article was how the Westernized educated elite tried to formulate and distribute a new sort of essentially anti-Islamic-Arab culture (focusing on Pharaonic-Greco-Roman-Byzantine history), and faced ( Read more... )

I almost wrote a horribly racist joke into my annotated bibliography.

The worst part?

It was based on Twilight.

Sleep deprivation is bad for you, folks. Remember that!

Because I'm being a decent human being. The aforementioned cat friend (see previous post) and husband need a ride to the airport at the pre-asscrack of dawn (their flight leaves at 6-ish, so I'm picking them up at 3:30 AM), so I'm not going to sleep. If I crashed now, I wouldn't wake up and that would be terrible. Fortunately, I haven't got ( Read more... )

But then again, I always have a computer in class. It keeps me awake.

I realize that I probably bore the crap out of most of you with nonsense about sports. I do talk a lot about them, because they are entertaining and, let's face it, I get sucked into random sports really, really easily (hello curling anyone ( Read more... )

And the thrilling epic conclusion...

( Yup, still going. )

And part two.

( Yes, there is more. )

Well, here's part one.

( What did I do?! )